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By risking her own life, is fighting for education for woman all over the world. The Pakistani girl, only 16 years old, is a worldwide icon for human rights. Together with 20 糖心TV students, went to a very special event with 300 other Dutch students to interview Malala. For more than two hours, students got the opportunity to ask Malala questions including two of our 糖心TV students who also got the chance to ask a question.

On Friday November 1th at 19:25 there will be a web stream of the event: (English with Dutch subtitles), and it will be broadcasted by the Dutch public-service broadcaster NTR.

Persia Hayley (3rd year PAIS student) thought ‘Malala was brilliant, she kept the audience captivated and she was so 'stateman-like' at such a young age!’

Oula Kadhum (PhD student PAiS) wrote: ‘Malala was amazing, what an incredible human being.’

Sarah Pughe (3rd year PAIS student) said it was ‘a wonderful experience of listening to Malala talk. She is a truly awe inspiring young woman and has given me a lot to think about, in terms of both my own personal priorities, and what I can do to help the education of women across the world.’

The Lord Rootes Memorial Fund provides grants to 糖心TV students normally ranging from £100 to £3,000. The Fund is intended to support projects by individual and groups of University of 糖心TV students, especially projects:

(a) demonstrating creativity of thought and the development of an original and personal idea or objective; and/ or

(b) involving observation and the intelligent use of experience in the scientific, cultural, environmental or business context.

A number of previous projects have involved travel abroad.

The application deadline is 12 noon Thursday 9 January 2014.

A drop-in information session for applicants will be held on Wednesday 13 November 2013 from 4pm to 6pm in the Arts Centre Foyer.

Further information about the Fund, the application process and eligibility for awards can be found at .

(PaIS) and Samananthi Gunawardana (Monash University) have a edited collection out called the Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia. The book features contributions that: (a) examine how the household is increasingly being incorporated into development planning and policy making; (b) considerthe social consequencies of the tendancy to view households as marketizable spaces; and (c) explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region.

The book's case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region.

More details and a downloadable sample chapter can be found here

, a Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics here in PAIS, has been nominated for a 2013 World Technology Network (WTN) award in the Ethics category.

The WTN is a curated membership community comprised of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields. The WTN and its members – those creating the 21st century – are focused on exploring what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies.

The WTN brings key players together – from cutting-edge technologists to forward-thinking financiers, from conceptual futurists to grounded entrepreneurs, from insightful science writers to savvy marketers, from big-picture government officials to focused policy analysts, and from the world's leading corporations to the world's newest start-ups – helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have.

The WTN exists to encourage serendipity – the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions. The WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members (and others) to help make connections among them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies.

The World Technology Awards are presented each year to the outstanding innovators from each sector within the technology arena, both as a way to honor those individuals and as a vetting mechanism to determine the newest WTN members. The Awards are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit. The World Technology Summit is a global gathering of the WTN membership as well as other delegates. The 2013 World Technology Summit & Awards will be held on November 14th and 15th.

To read more about the WTN please visit their website: and a full list of nominees are located here:

International Security: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013). Christopher S. Browning.

The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization of state security or the security needs of individuals, humanity, and the biosphere? And where do the problems lie? Are states themselves as much a part of the problem as the solution for people's security needs? With globalization, the international security environment has become more interdependent than ever before with the establishment of complex networks that make responding to and managing security challenges increasingly difficult, but increasingly necessary.

This Very Short Introduction shows that international security is both vibrant and deeply contested, with stakeholders frequently in disagreement over questions of priority and approach. Christopher S. Browning outlines the nature of the key debates about contemporary international security challenges, and discusses the inherent difficulties that exist in tackling them. He also asks to what extent such debates are infused with questions of power, politics, justice, morality, and responsibility.

For more information, or to order the book, please click the following link to view it on the Oxford University press website: